Bug#731345: Kirkwood Kernel 3.12-1
Adding Marc, who proposed the initial patch.
* Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> [2014-01-08 08:35]:
> (adding the bug)
>
> On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 08:22 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > * Markus Krebs <mk@drkrebs.de> [2014-01-08 06:25]:
> > > I just wanted to let you know that the last kernel update in testing
> > > ("jessie") to 3.12-1 went really bad on my SheevaPlug. It wouldn't
> > > boot anymore ("Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 =
> > > 0x00000831)"). Also the uImage.bak and the uInitrd.bak which had been
> >
> > flash-kernel needs the patch from #731345.
> >
> > Ian, 3.12 is in testing now. Is the patch from #731345 ready now and
> > can you make an upload?
>
> When I was testing the ts41x DT patches from Andrew Lunn at the weekend
> I found that the approach of just adding the DTB-Append option broke
> with older kernels, complaining (rightly) that the DTB file wasn't
> present.
>
> So, assuming I've not misdiagnosed it, the patch needs to be expanded
> with some sort of conditional to cope with this, I haven't had time to
> look into that. The bug thread came to the same conclusion, although the
> rationale was different.
>
> An alternative would be for f-k to declare Breaks against older kernels.
> I don't really want to do that though, since it would make upgrades
> harder than they need to be.
>
> The best option is probably a "DTB-Optional-Before: version" field I
> guess?
>
> Ian.
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